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A computational challenge problem in materials discovery: synthetic problem generator and real-world datasets

@inproceedings{LeBras2014ACC,
  title={A computational challenge problem in materials discovery: synthetic problem generator and real-world datasets},
  author={Ronan Le Bras and Richard Bernstein and J. Gregoire and Santosh K. Suram and Carla P. Gomes and Bart Selman and Robert Bruce van Dover},
  booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year={2014}
}
Newly-discovered materials have been central to recent technological advances. They have contributed significantly to breakthroughs in electronics, renewable energy and green buildings, and overall, have promoted the advancement of global human welfare. Yet, only a fraction of all possible materials have been explored. Accelerating the pace of discovery of materials would foster technological innovations, and would potentially address pressing issues in sustainability, such as energy production… 
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